On Sunday, as I stood at the back door of the church greeting parishioners, I was struck by the warmth and thoughtfulness of ’the people I serve, the members...
“It may be said that the clergy and laity are definitely opposed to any blurring of the distinction between the ordained ministry and the general ‘priesthood of the laity.’”
Archbishop Justin Welby: “There will be people who look at that and say the church is totally out of touch … but we don’t do things on the basis of opinion polls.”
The ministry of the former Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Marc Hadley Andrus, was suspended on October 9 because of “a credible allegation of an inappropriate relationship with an adult.”
The Diocese of Easton, which a decade ago was contemplating a merger with one of its neighboring dioceses, now understands itself as a resurrected small diocese.
Bishop Douglas Scharf: “I’ve lived in Florida most of my life, and I have not seen two storms that have affected a good portion of this part of Florida back-to-back like this.”
